Grower turning CO2 into food for plants

Converting the carbon dioxide created during greenhouse heating into fertilizer for pepper plants is winning rave reviews for SunSelect Produce.

SunSelect is a Vancouver-based grower for The Oppenheimer Group. In an interview with The Packer, Oppenheimer's greenhouse and vegetable category director Aaron Quon said:

"SunSelect is one of about a dozen greenhouse operations in B.C. that uses biomass from the timber industry as a heat source, but it's currently the only one that repurposes the carbon dioxide the trees had respired in their lifetime into a source of nutrition for new plants."